Hello,
I’m new here, and I have a font that has three variants
Can anyone help me how to create alternate fonts in FontCreator?
I try to search on youtube and on the net but can’t find any.
Please, I need help and if possible send me a video for tutorials.
Tnx.
Mensinhl
I moved your post to the correct forum.
You can find some Video Tutorials in the Tutorials forum.
What do you mean by variants? Regular, Bold, and Italics? Or something else?
It is not Regular, bold and italics and also bold italics,
For example for the char A, it has 3 different type of A. so in photoshop, or indesign, when i highlight the char A, it will show me 3 alternate A in glyph.
See in the attachment, an example.
So i need to know what are the steps to create alternate font in fontcreator.
Any help.
You need to add a Stylistic Alternates feature using the OpenType Designer.
Name your glyphs A, A.alt1, A.alt2 etc., and add a glyph substitution as in the linked thread.
Please can you give me more details, on how to add Stylistic Alternates on fontcreator. Also, i dont know what is the use of lookups. Do i need to insert single substitution and so on, pls.
Any help.
Watch the video What’s New in FontCreator 11.0 from 7:30 onwards on adding scripts, features, and lookups.
Which version of FontCreator do you have ?
I have check the video that you sent me the link but there is only a short brief on how to use opentype designer.
Please is it possible to make a full tutorials on opentype designer like how to add alternate font such as 3 variants fonts in the same font?
What is the use of features and lookups?
What is class manager?
When adding an alternate, do i need to add chaining context and so on.
Please i really need your help. I know that it is a bit hard for you to do so, can you try and also i dont really use scripts in codes?
Sorry to disturb you again.
Regards,
Mensinhl
You don’t need a chaining context, just a simple Glyph Substitution.
I already spent many months of my free time producing the tutorials. I have no more time to spare for hand-holding you through the process.
Read the help file, watch the tutorials, and discover how the process works.
Hello,
I find a font which has 5 variants type so when i type A - 5 times, it show 5 different variants in either in Photoshop, Indesign and also in Opentype designer when i type 5 type it, but in opentype designer, when i click on CALT, it works so any help…
I really need your help.
Tnx for all.
Regards,
Mensinhl
Even with this new information it is not clear to me what you try to accomplish.
Maybe the rand feature would do the trick?
I think that the OP wants the calt feature to cycle through alternates automatically like in this Glyphs tutorial:
https://glyphsapp.com/tutorials/features-part-3-advanced-contextual-alternates
Mike
Here is how it can be done in FontCreator:
Add Contextual Alternates to Mimic Random Glyph Rotation
Yes, that what i’m trying to do but even with your example, i cant solve the problem. any help.
I send you an example in the attachment but can you try to solve the problem and send me back so i can know why i cant done it correctly.
Tnx for all.
Mensinhl
Test-A.fcp (8.19 KB)
I’ve used Garava to make a test case which contains OpenType layout feature code for 4 additional pseudo random character variants for all lower case Latin characters (a..z).
GaravaPseudoRandom2.fcp (576 KB)
Due to the nature of processing text, each line resets the “randomness”.
Thank you very much for your example, i finally understand how it works but now i have more problems such as for the first 2 letters such as BA should be the first variant and after this another BA and this one should be the second one and so on.
How can i do this settings?
Please check the picture in the attachment, i sent you an example , how it should be. the font in the red circle is the correct one.
Please any help.
Mensinhl
It doesn’t help if you keep adding more requirements…
Even though it would be a nice challenge for a Sunday afternoon, I have other plans, so try to figure it out on your own.
Trial and error is very useful.
Experiment !
(but always keep a copy of the original in case things get messed up (which they will)).
Please anyone can tell me what is the use of Backtrack, Input, Lookahead and Substitution Tables?
I’m still don’t know how to put the sequence in orders, any help.
Backtrack is the sequence of glyphs before the actual contextual input, and lookahead is what comes after it.
Say you only want to replace “f” “i” with a “fi” ligature if it precedes with and “i” and “c” “e” after it, then it would trigger the substitution tables if you type:
magnificent
but it would not proceed if you type:
artificial
In this case
backtrack: “i”
input: “f” “i”
lookahead: “c” “e”
substitution table: ligature “f” “i” → “fi”
Tnx you for your advice. Now, i have another problem. I have the Letter I, that i need to change it to I but with the 2 stick on it, i sent you in the attachment, so you can have an idea. But, i need to change only I, at the begining of a phrase, and also on these following which are
. I
? I
! I
. IN
I’
IF
I–I
IS
IN
I…
…I
I KNOW
Any help, pls.
Thank you for all.
Best Regards,
Mensinhl
